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ABOVE has a proven sales transformation service offering, "SalesXPO™", to provide companies rapid market entry into India, ASEAN (Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand & Vietnam) and the Middle East. The ABOVE team has assembled a team of experts with strong industry domain expertise, government relations and proven 'in country' experience to enable rapid market entry. SalesXPO™ services transforms the existing sales and marketing functions of an organization with SalesXPO™'s in country experts. To survive and thrive in the new global market, any organization looking at an expansion plan has to have a clear engagement for the Asia Pacific & Middle East markets.

The SalesXPO™ service offering takes into consideration the various attributes required to succeed in these geographies. Our service and methodology infuses the organization with experts who have proven domain expertise along with the regional investment philosophy, market dynamics, industry strengths, business culture and social fabric.

The SalesXPO™ methodology seamlessly integrates and extends the sales and marketing functions in the region with the existing 'organizations' culture. The net result is to provide unparalleled market entry speed, rapid monetization of the company's products and services and increase return of investment.

SalesXPO™ has focused industry expertise in the following industries:

Retail
Media and Entertainment
Banking and Financial Services (BFSI)
Technology and Telecom
Healthcare
Education

Success in the region requires mastery of the "industry domain" along with "information" of the business/social dynamics. SalesXPO™ has a proven team of industry veterans who have operated in the region to provide companies looking to expand in the region - a proven methodology for success.

SalesXPO™ services aims to make the formulation and execution of sales and marketing strategies in the India, ASEAN & Middle East markets systematic, actionable and results oriented. No company – large or small, incumbent or new entrant – can afford to ignore the tremendous market potential of this region. The region keeps evolving; therefore the SalesXPO™ methodology constantly updates its strategies to ensure its clients are always updated. SalesXPO™ is the only focused sales and market services company which is 100% dedicated to is clients from small startups to established companies which can help them not only survive in these markets but also to thrive in them!

SalesXPO™ Services

SalesXPO™ Strategic Advisory Services
SalesXPO™ Sales & Marketing Outsourcing Services
SalesXPO™ Workshop (Customized for clients)
Selling in India & ASEAN – Strategic Workshop
SalesXPO™ Sales Training – Certified Sales Professional Training Program

Kindly complete our feedback form for more information on these services or email us at salesxpo@above-inc.com to schedule a consultative session with one of our experts. For a detailed overview of SalesXPO™ kindly visit the website at www.salesXPO.com.

ABOVE has a proven sales transformation service offering "SalesXPO™" to provide companies rapid market entry into the India, ASEAN (Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand & Vietnam) and Middle East. The ABOVE team has assembled a team of experts with strong industry domain expertise, government relations and proven in country experience to enable rapid market entry. Read more

The global industry landscape is changing rapidly with highly dynamic market trends and evolution of new technologies that are defining the architecture and business model of the next-generation business world. The technology transformation services (TTS) enable organizations to optimize investments, transform capabilities and achieve greater business value from technology.

The ABOVE team of TTS experts have proven industry experience to help businesses adopt the technologies and achieve greater business value. Our industry experts are currently focused on the following key technologies:

Collaborative Technologies

ABOVE's technology experts have expertise across the collaborative value chain from information exchange to social interaction. Our technology experts focus on the following areas:

Web/Content/Social Media Collaboration
Team spaces, forums, Web2.0, social media, presence& instant messaging
Mobile Collaboration
Application Integration, Mobile office, mobile blogging, interactive video services
Virtual Collaboration
Web conferencing, Video conferencing, Telepresence, Broadcast collaboration

ABOVE's team of experts are leveraging collaborative technologies to enable solutions in Collaborative Communities, Education (Smart Classroom) and Healthcare (Telemedicine, Smart Healthcare).

Cloud Computing

ABOVE's technology team has proven expertise in the area of cloud computing and distributed system architecture design and deployment.

The key areas of focus are:

Delivery of capabilities "as a service"
Delivery of services in a highly scalable and elastic fashion
Using Internet technologies and techniques to develop and deliver the services

Although cost is a potential benefit for small companies, the biggest benefits are the built-in elasticity and scalability, which not only reduce barriers to entry, but also enable these companies to grow quickly.

Open Source Technologies

ABOVE team works with global customers to assess, plan and implement the most effective open source strategies for their business. Open source is becoming an increasingly important part of the technology mix for organizations in pursuit of high performance. In a business environment where cost and speed to market are both critical factors, open source software can play a key role in helping organizations develop the capabilities they need to achieve high performance quickly and at reduced cost.

To take full advantage of implementing open source comprehensively and successfully, organizations should carefully address integrating open source projects with the overall technology strategy and ensuring adequate support.

In addition, a comprehensive licensing strategy must be created and integration issues dealt with.

ABOVE is currently focused on some of the following open source projects in the area of collaboration:

Moodle (Learning Management Systems),
DimDim (Web Conferencing),
Liferay (Enterprise Open Source Portal) and
Joomla (Portal & Content Management)

ABOVE provides integration services around open source technologies such as Moodle, DimDim, Google Apps and other third party applications via its "Google Connector" product. ABOVE also has proven expertise in open source mobile platforms such as Android and Symbian Foundation and works with customers to develop cross platform applications that are device agnostic and enable anytime and anywhere access.

Location Based Services

Applications of location-based services (LBS) are soaring, and will lead to a doubling of subscribers and revenue over the course of 2009. Location-Based Services consumer base is predicted to increase from 41 million in 2008 to 95.7 million in 2009, while revenue is expected to grow from $998.3m (£615m) in 2008 to $2.2bn (£1.35bn) in 2009.

The ABOVE team has proven expertise in designing and deploying location-based services and platforms globally. ABOVE team is currently deploying one of the leading "Location As A Service – LAAS" platforms – Pingtopia-LAAS™.

The Pingtopia-LAAS™ platform enables aggregation of subscriber location data from a wide variety of sources such as GPS enabled mobile internet device (MID), GPS/AGPS smart phones and other location enabled devices.

ABOVE's Pingtopia-LAAS™ platform enables application developers to interface to its platform and rapidly deploy location based services. ABOVE's team can complete end to end location based services and strategic consulting services to organization from consumer device design to server/platform integration. To know more about Pingtopia-LAAS™ platform, please visit product website www.pingtopia.com and to know about "Smart Transportation" solution based on the Pingtopia-LAAS ™ platform for dynamic vehicle tracking, visit www.trackmelive.com.

The global industry landscape is changing rapidly with the rapidly changing market trends and evolution of new technologies that are defining the architecture and business model of the next-generation business world. The technology transformation services enable organizations to optimize investments, transform capabilities and achieve greater business value from technology. Read more

Developments in the world of media and digital technology/marketing are forcing companies to review their marketing strategies and engagement with their consumers. The Net Generation of consumers are using technology in ways that one could never have imagined. The digital world is evolving and spawning a new era of “New Media” – user generated content, consumer communities, new forms of communication via podcasting and blogging. The new generations of consumers are activelyparticipating in the distribution of entertainment and information.

Therefore organizations have to look beyond conventional/traditional approaches to marketing and reaching out to consumers. They have to look at New Media strategies and leverage the advances digital media and technologies.

ABOVE provides organizations with strategic advisory services in digital media marketing. The MTS experts provide strategic advisory services in the digital market planning and execution using the following channels:

Web & Internet Media
Email, Social Media & Viral Marketing
Mobile Platforms & Marketing
User/Consumer Generated Content
Digital Out of Home (DOOH)
IPTV

ABOVE's Media Transformation Service is offered via a dedicated media practice BasilMedia™ (www.basilmedia.com). BasilMedia™ provides complete end to end digital media strategy, planning, buying and execution. As digital media experts we specialize in working with brands and media agencies to educate them on "new media" and also provide platforms, technology and services to executive campaigns on multiple digital channels, thereby maximizing their media investments.

BasilMedia™ provides an India, ASEAN & Middle East region specific Digital Media services strategy. ABOVE's MTS experts have built success digital media strategies in the region and have proven relationships across the entire ecosystem with media agencies, advertising agencies, media network operators, aggregators and brands.